Blind Venus

Blind Venus (1941)

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Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."

Director: Abel Gance

Casts

	Viviane Romance as Clarisse
	Georges Flamant as Madère
	Henri Guisol as Ulysse
	Lucienne Le Marchand as Gisèle
	Jean Aquistapace as Indigo
	Mary-Lou as Mireille
	Adrien Caillard as
	Philippe Grey as L'officier
	Gérard Landry as Gazul
	Géo Lecomte as Le quartier-maître
	Marion Malville as Marceline
	Jean-François Martial as Un ami
	Jean-Jack Meccati as L'admirateur
	Marcel Millet as Goutare
	Micheline Promeyrat as
	Roland Pégurier as Le mousse
	Marc Raymondun as
	Renée Reney as La chanteuse
	Rocca as Le chanteur
	Georges Térof as Un ami

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